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Heaven will protect the working girl

Title: Heaven will protect the working girl [videorecording] / an American Social History production ; directors, Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, Andrea Ades Vásquez ; producer/art director/script, Joshua Brown ; co-producer/editor, Pennee Bender; co-producer/assoc. art director, Andrea Ades Vásquez.
Publication: New York, NY : American Social History Project, c1993.

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Description

1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 1/2 in. +

Summary

Period stills and motion pictures, and words derived from interviews, memoirs, newspapers and other sources, are assembled to show the life of immigrant shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century. Illustrates the union movement, the 1909 strike and the arrests of many women involved.

Subject

Women clothing workers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Women foreign workers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Women's clothing industry > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Shirt industry > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Women clothing workers > Labor unions > Organizing > History > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
Women foreign workers > Labor unions > Organizing > History > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
Strikes and lockouts > Shirt industry > History > New York (State) > New York > 20th century

System Details (note)

VHS.

Call Number

*UGS-1529

OCLC

47986597

Title

Heaven will protect the working girl [videorecording] / an American Social History production ; directors, Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, Andrea Ades Vásquez ; producer/art director/script, Joshua Brown ; co-producer/editor, Pennee Bender; co-producer/assoc. art director, Andrea Ades Vásquez.

Imprint

New York, NY : American Social History Project, c1993.

System Details

VHS.

Added Author

Bender, Pennee.

Brown, Joshua, 1949-

Vasquez, Andrea Ades.

American Social History Project.

Research Call Number

*UGS-1529 [Video]

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